The new iOS 4.2 Golden Master Seed was released to developers yesterday and it contains a cool new feature that no one's talking about.
Mike Keller from PCWorld elaborates on the feature he thinks will be very exciting: MIDI.
I'll even admit I may have skimmed past the MIDI API's added in the first 4.2 beta without so much as batting an eye. But now that it's here I think the importance of the new framework is setting in. The iPhone and iPad have already gained some attention as music creation tools (if only in novelty), but I believe serious musicians may now start to recognize iOS as a real studio tool. The large touch screen of the iPad makes it a pretty powerful (and extremely flexible) controller. It will be interesting to see what developers come up with using the iPhone's accelerometer and gyroscope as MIDI input.
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mat - November 3, 2010 at 7:30pm
No one talks about bullshit. Plain and simple. Just give us back features we had on symbian and palm os
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randomdude - November 3, 2010 at 2:53pm
there's already OSC which can also transport data of all the ios devices' sensors, depending on the software used (besides osc's superior network implementation). but anyways, yay for midi!
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Mike - November 3, 2010 at 1:32pm
I like this. I really like the gyro and accelerometer idea to control sound. Imagine holding a finger on a note on a keyboard or some kind of sound pad, and tilting your iDevice to adjust pitch, or rotating the gyro to adjust phase or tremolo speed etc. Would be awesome!
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Noman - November 3, 2010 at 2:21pm
Totally agree Mike, lots of possibilities for this. Excited to see what developers do with the function.
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